WO2015187808A1 - Système et méthodologie d'intégration d'informations - Google Patents

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WO2015187808A1
WO2015187808A1 PCT/US2015/033949 US2015033949W WO2015187808A1 WO 2015187808 A1 WO2015187808 A1 WO 2015187808A1 US 2015033949 W US2015033949 W US 2015033949W WO 2015187808 A1 WO2015187808 A1 WO 2015187808A1
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  • Disclosed embodiments relate to software implemented solutions for building, customizing, documenting and managing processes related to regulatory requirements required for manufacturing in compliance with national and international standards and regulations.
  • Track Wise® is an enterprise quality management software solution from Sparta Systems that optimizes quality systems management across a range of industries.
  • Trackwise® provides corrective and preventive actions, process deviations, training records, other compliance tracking.
  • Documentum® is an enterprise content management platform that provides document management.
  • disclosed embodiments provide an information technology solution that integrates a number of conventional processes in a novel manner necessary to specify, develop, construct, qualify, validate, and operate manufacturing facilities (e.g., drug manufacturing facilities, for example, manufacturing facilities that manufacture active drug substances or dosages or other product regulated by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or international GMP regulations).
  • manufacturing facilities e.g., drug manufacturing facilities, for example, manufacturing facilities that manufacture active drug substances or dosages or other product regulated by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or international GMP regulations.
  • FDA US Food and Drug Administration
  • the scope of disclosed embodiments is designed to integrate data and manage processes within the manufacturing process, operation of the facility, and the physical plant - equipment and automation.
  • FIG. 1 a full scale operation involves various data and processes for processes, people, and physical plants and infrastructure.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates a process control strategy that may be utilized in accordance with the disclosed embodiments may be generated based on process development reports, Critical Quality Attributes (CQA)-Critical Processing Parameters (CPP) relationships, raw material specifications and variability data, process risk assessments, regulatory commitments and process user requirements.
  • CQA Critical Quality Attributes
  • CCP Critical Processing Parameters
  • FIG. 3 illustrates an example of an example of functionality that may be included in a process control strategy.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates further detail of the conceptual functionality of the information managed by disclosed embodiments.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates the structural implementation of architecture used to provide the inventive knowledge based quality system.
  • FIG. 6 is a screen shot of a front end interface of the system that enables process and product control to users to enable management of product details and attributes, view and edit attribute specific and quickly view targets and risk.
  • FIG. 7 is an illustration of front end interface details that enable the linking of attributes to quality processes and to products.
  • FIG. 8 is an illustration of front end interface functionality that enables the ability to manage attributes and product details.
  • FIG. 9 is an illustration of front end interface functionality that enable documenting, tracking and managing required and optional product filings for regulatory agencies.
  • FIG. 10 is an illustration of front end functionality that enables management of process steps.
  • FIG. 1 1 is an illustration of front end functionality that enables maintaining CQA - CPP relationships.
  • FIG. 12 is an illustration of front end functionality that enables setting, updating and documenting quality risk controls.
  • FIGS. 13-15 are illustrations of front end functionality that enables management of life- cycle requirements.
  • FIG. 16 illustrates exemplary architecture included in the system that enable test planning.
  • FIGS. 17-19 illustrate front end functionality that enables users to create and manage test cases.
  • FIG. 20 illustrates exemplary architecture included in the system that enable equipment and instrument data management.
  • FIG. 21 illustrates exemplary architecture included in the system that enable
  • FIG. 22 illustrates front end functionality that enables users to build and manage documentation.
  • FIG. 23 illustrates exemplary architecture included in the system that enable field execution of paperless documents.
  • FIG. 24 illustrates exemplary architecture included in the system that enable quality protocol development.
  • FIGS. 25-29 illustrate front end functionality that enables issue creation and management.
  • FIG. 30 illustrates front end functionality that enables management of meeting for user personnel.
  • FIG. 31 illustrates front end functionality that enables creation and editing of signature flows.
  • FIG. 32 illustrates exemplary architecture included in the system that enable maintenance, calibration and spare parts planning.
  • FIG. 33 illustrates exemplary architecture included in the system that enable personnel training and qualification data. Detailed Description:
  • Disclosed embodiments may be configured to manage information, present that information in various layouts, and more importantly, link information elements to one another so as to provide meaningful connections for users when reviewing, editing or otherwise processing that information.
  • quality risks may be controlled by various methodologies, e.g., design, automation, and quality systems. These may be provided by design elements, functions, procedures, training, maintenance or calibration activities, etc.
  • the disclosed embodiments may link many different kinds of information to allow users to easily assess, make decisions, and/or perform tasks in an efficient and effective manner. As a result, disclosed embodiments enable the ability to save money and time while improving quality.
  • disclosed embodiments enable organization and linking of process knowledge, requirements definition and basis of design, quality risk assessments and risk controls, critical aspects of equipment and automation, test planning, electronic (paperless) testing, dynamic traceability matrices. Further, disclosed embodiments enable the ability to better track and resolve issues, manage documentation, record meetings, action items and decisions, track project milestones and budgets, and maintain quality standards.
  • FIG. 1 there is significant utility in the management of data, knowledge, information and their interrelationships in the manufacturing environment.
  • a full scale operation involves various data and processes for processes, people, and physical plants and infrastructure. Accordingly, construction quality control and qualification and maintenance for facilities/equipment/and automation. Additionally, there is validation required for process demonstration, measurement and continuous improvement and facilitate change management. Organizational reliability must be managed to achieve and maintain personnel knowledge, skills, training procedures, readiness and operation excellence. Further, process knowledge, quality risk management and process control strategy must be documented and analyzed.
  • Disclosed embodiments provide an information integration and management system that can store process control strategies in a useful way.
  • Process control strategies are planned sets of controls, derived from an understanding of manufactured products and manufacturing processes that assure process performance and product quality (see, for example, International Conference on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) Q10).
  • Process control strategies ensure process performance and product quality.
  • each control strategy may pertain to a manufacturing process and a "product" it creates.
  • a process control strategy is generated based on the inputs (sources) and is formulated by an enterprise that uses the information integration and management system.
  • a process control strategy may be generated based on process development reports, Critical Quality Attributes (CQA)-Critical Processing Parameters (CPP) relationships, raw material specifications and variability data, process risk assessments, regulatory commitments and process user requirements.
  • CQA Critical Quality Attributes
  • CCP Critical Processing Parameters
  • disclosed embodiments may provide a software and hardware implemented solution that enables manufacturing organizations to manage knowledge, manage information, comply with regulations, and operate Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)- regulated manufacturing in a more efficient and technically innovative way.
  • GMP Good Manufacturing Practice
  • disclosed embodiments may provide an information technology solution that integrates a number of conventional processes in a novel manner necerney to specify, develop, construct, qualify, validate, and operate manufacturing facilities (e.g., drug manufacturing facilities, for example, manufacturing facilities that manufacture active drug substances or dosages or other product regulated by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or international GMP regulations).
  • manufacturing facilities e.g., drug manufacturing facilities, for example, manufacturing facilities that manufacture active drug substances or dosages or other product regulated by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or international GMP regulations.
  • FDA US Food and Drug Administration
  • the scope of disclosed embodiments is designed to integrate data and manage processes within the manufacturing process, operation of the facility, and the physical plant - equipment and automation.
  • disclosed embodiments establish relationships between aspects of technology transfer, organizational reliability, process validation, infrastructure qualification and construction quality control, as illustrated in FIG. 3.
  • functionality, data and analytics associated with components within those aspects are interrelated in such a way that they may be better managed to provide improved workstreams and authorizations for processed involved in the manufacturing operations using process control strategies.
  • a process control strategy provided and utilized in accordance with the claimed invention may influence various aspects of the manufacturing operations for a particular enterprise. This may include design, verification and qualification, Process Performance Qualification (PV), procedures, maintenance and calibration and spare parts, training and personnel qualification, Corrective Action and Preventative Action (CAP A), change control and continuous improvement paradigms. Accordingly, a process control strategy may include all or a subset of functionality, data and analytics required for the aspects of manufacturing illustrated in FIG. 3. As a result, FIG. 4 should be understood to illustrate the conceptual functionality of the information managed by the information integration and management system but is not a structural implementation of the architecture of the disclosed embodiments.
  • disclosed embodiments may also be implemented to better deliver software as a service in such a manner that no IT support required. This is possible because the disclosed embodiments provide easily configurable workstreams and authorizations.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates the structural implementation of architecture used to provide the inventive knowledge based quality system.
  • Information that is created and/or managed and/or cross-linked by the disclosed embodiments, and the associated work that the inventive processes facilitated include: performance of quality risk assessments, process control strategy (e.g., how each unit operation within an enterprise or supply chain serves to control CPPs or quality risks), quality system (e.g., how each element of a GMP quality system is implemented via procedures, training, equipment, processing, automation etc.), regulatory compliance (e.g., how each element of GMP regulations is addressed in the manufacturing quality system), engineering or project change management and regulatory QA change control, and development of verification documentation for factory or site acceptance testing, commissioning, formal qualification, and process validation.
  • process control strategy e.g., how each unit operation within an enterprise or supply chain serves to control CPPs or quality risks
  • quality system e.g., how each element of a GMP quality system is implemented via procedures, training, equipment, processing, automation etc.
  • regulatory compliance e.g., how each element of GMP regulations is addressed in the manufacturing quality system
  • the central knowledge management and quality system foundation component and stored and managed information component serve to connect the input data or capture of decisions, etc. with system modules/functions/outputs used to support a front end for the system.
  • GUI Graphical User Interface
  • the knowledge management and quality system foundation component may be compatible with various regulatory requirements including GMP regulations, International Guidance, US FDA and EU EMA Guidance and other International Standards.
  • FIG. 6 is a screen shot of a front end interface of the system that enables process and product control to users to enable management of product details and attributes, view and edit attribute specific and quickly view targets and risk.
  • FIG. 7 is an illustration of front end interface details that enable the linking of attributes to quality processes and to products. Additionally, targets and risk value may likewise be assigned to various attributes.
  • FIG. 8 is an illustration of front end interface functionality that enables the ability to manage attributes and product details including impact on the patient.
  • Targets and risk values may be assigned to attributes.
  • Analytical methods can be tied to attributes.
  • pharmacovigilance protocols require that patient outcomes be monitored and additional clinical data be compiled.
  • the illustrated functionality allows the results of these further studies to be captured and the enhanced product knowledge be translated into potential manufacturing process improvements. This is done through the database relationships of quality attributes to manufacturing process parameters (CQA to CPP), the relationships of manufacturing process parameters to the manufacturing process control strategy, and the relationships of this strategy to elements of the manufacturing operation: the equipment, automation, procedures, personnel training, and other elements.
  • Disclosed embodiments utilize electronic protocols.
  • electronic protocol outlines may be pre-approved allowing individual test cases to be approved as they are developed, reducing overall review time. Protocols may be routed automatically and electronically; as a result, there are no paper documents to get lost. Test cases can be populated from a pre-approved test case library, reducing development time. As a result users can see a 50% - 90% reduction in protocol development time.
  • GDP Good Distribution Practice
  • Disclosed embodiments provide a knowledge based quality system that is designed to meet ICH Q8-9-10-1 1-12, ICH Q8, Ql l (Process control strategy), ICH Q9 (Quality risk management), ICH Q10 (Quality system), ICH Ql 1 (Product life-cycle management).
  • Disclosed embodiments also provide an effective mechanism for both knowledge management and process knowledge, wherein relationships between Critical Quality Attributes(CQA)-Critical Processing Parameters (CPP), design, verification, validation, quality system are built, maintained and managed.
  • CQA Critical Quality Attributes
  • Critical Processing Parameters CCP
  • FIG. 11 is an illustration of front end functionality that enables maintaining CQA - CPP relationships. Through the fields and screens of the front end, users can specify critical processes as necessary, set parameter control and design range and specify high and low impact details. As mentioned above, it should be understood that disclosed embodiments may be configured to provide these capabilities to manufacturing enterprises that are subject to the United States FDA and/or similar international GMP regulations.
  • disclosed embodiments may be configured to facilitate these enterprises' compliance with various regulations and standards including but not limited to: US FDA 21 CFR Parts 210 and 21 1 (GMP Regulations), and similar EU EMA, Japan MHLW, China CFDA, WHO, and other national GMP regulations; US FDA and/or similar international regulations for the manufacture of combination products, biologies, and medical devices; US FDA Guidance on Process Validation (201 1) and similar EU EMA Process Validation Guidance; International Conference on Harmonization Quality Guidance Documents (ICH Q7A, ICH Q8-R2, ICH Q9, ICH Q10, ICH Ql l ; International standards including ASTM E2500 and ISO 55000. Further disclosed embodiments help ensure compliance with the requirements of 21 CFR Part 1 1.
  • disclosed embodiments may be configured to manage information for such manufacturing enterprises from outside sources including product and process development data.
  • Management of such data enables generation, management and understanding of information regarding product quality attributes that provide efficacy; further, such data enables understanding when product quality attributes not within specifications could pose a hazard to product end users (e.g., CQAs) ; relationships between CQAs and process conditions - raw materials, and in-process parameters necessary to effect CQAs (e.g., CPPs).
  • Such third party generated data may also include results of quality risk assessments, and regulatory filings, in particular the information found in the Chemistry Manufacturing Controls section of drug filings (also known as an international Common Technical Document.
  • such data can include process user requirements, functional requirements and design specifications, either in the form of data entry records or as separate documents which may then be managed as document records by the inventive information technology management system.
  • disclosed embodiments facilitate design qualification, which involves confirming that a design matches requirements.
  • FIG. 12 is an illustration of front end functionality that enables setting, updating and documenting quality risk controls, for example, tracking process hazards and severity, maintaining pathway information for process steps and storing detection methods and controls.
  • FIGS. 13-15 are illustrations of front end functionality that enables management of life- cycle requirements.
  • the functionality enables users to draft, review, approve, archive and revise requirements as well as automatically update traceability matrices upon approved changes. Users may also supersede, inactivate or archive requirements if necessary, import existing requirements from spreadsheets, create and approve links from requirements to components, use requirements to drive electronic testing, and directly attach reference documentation for requirements.
  • the disclosed embodiments enable multilayer security, allow for multiple levels of collaboration, track comments, enable a full audit trail and enable creation of custom approval flows.
  • Disclosed embodiments enable improved creation, editing and management of documents.
  • FIG. 9 is an illustration of frond end interface functionality that enable documenting, tracking and managing required and optional product filings for regulatory agencies. For example, product filings may be tracked by number, ID, and title. Additionally, the system enables attachment of product filing documents and inclusion of comments for future reference.
  • FIG. 10 is an illustration of one front end functionality that enables management of process steps including, for example, maintaining process steps and order and linking process steps to necessary systems.
  • FIG. 16 illustrates exemplary architecture included in the system that enable test planning that provides 100% paperless electronic execution, online/offline support, and table support.
  • the architecture enables users to design their own test cases, link test cases to regulatory and other requirements, create acceptance criteria automatically, check in and check out test cases, auto-generate discrepancies, enforce real-time verifications, auto-track discrepancy status and can create dry runs.
  • the test case functionality of the disclosed embodiments enable multilayer security, allow for multiple levels of collaboration, track comments, enable a full audit trail and enable creation of custom approval flows.
  • FIG. 18 illustrates front end functionality that enables users to create and manage test cases. For example, as illustrated in FIG. 18, users can track elements for test execution, check in/check out test cases, add comments, modify test elements and order, review the linked underlying process requirements, review and approve testing in a structured and controlled manner to meet regulatory compliance requirements, execute individual elements on demand, and create dry runs.
  • Disclosed embodiments provide a repository of operational experience data from all sources, of all types, that can be viewed and analyzed for trends; gaps in quality system, gaps in training, gaps in procedures, process improvement opportunities, refinement of design space, changes to control strategy, adjustments to maintenance and calibration programs, etc.
  • test case libraries are a repository of tests, which a user can fill, to later recall and use as templates for any other test after that.
  • the user can replicate test cases from the library pick from a list of any other test in existence.
  • users can copy test cases from other electronic protocols, assign tests by client sites, building, system, equipment, etc., assign test system and equipment from existing database entries and add attachments for test cases.
  • FIG. 20 illustrates exemplary architecture included in the system that enable equipment and instrument data management.
  • FIG. 21 illustrates exemplary architecture included in the system that enable commissioning and verification.
  • FIG. 22 illustrates front end functionality that enables users to build and manage documentation so as to take a document from draft to approval, input individual entries and approval flows per version, hold, archive for move forward.
  • the front end functionality enables a user to input comment threads per version, import functionality, subscribe to any document, get auto-notifications upon status changes and create custom approval flows.
  • Disclosed embodiments also facilitate the ability to field execute without paper documents using tablets or notebook computers, perform document management(including development processes, review and approval processes, and version management; reports of document development, review, approval, and version status), perform equipment and instrument data management, and management of turnover package requirements and satisfaction thereof; storage of vendor submittals and turnover package documents.
  • FIG. 23 illustrates exemplary architecture included in the system that enable field execution of paperless documents.
  • FIG. 24 illustrates exemplary architecture included in the system that enable quality protocol development.
  • Disclosed embodiments enable improved creation, editing and management issues and discrepancies.
  • disclosed embodiments enable the ability to electronically document issues in the field. Issues and actions may be automatically routed and tracked for speedy closure. Fixes may be documented via photographic evidence, reducing the number of hours to verify resolutions.
  • FIGS. 25-29 illustrate front end functionality that enables issue creation and management.
  • the functionality enables automatically triggering an issue from the test module, manual creation of issue records, linking issues to systems, equipment, buildings, area, process, etc., tracking impact level, creating and assigning actions to resolve an issue, use of email notifications to manage action resolution, tracking schedule impact, and tracking estimated and incurred cost impact details.
  • this functionality also enable multilayer security, allow for multiple levels of collaboration, track comments, enable a full audit trail and enable creation of custom approval flows.
  • Managed data may include meeting records, scope definition records, decision logs, action items (e.g., tracking, assignment, due dates, and related project management reporting), document requirements (e.g., verification documents, training, procedures, design documents, any document to be created and ultimately managed), and process flow diagrams or other process description information.
  • action items e.g., tracking, assignment, due dates, and related project management reporting
  • document requirements e.g., verification documents, training, procedures, design documents, any document to be created and ultimately managed
  • process flow diagrams or other process description information e.g.,
  • FIG. 30 illustrates front end functionality that enables management of meeting scheduling for user personnel. This includes the ability for users to manage teams' meetings schedule and includes the ability to build and access a full audit trail and decision log, add action items for follow-up, send e-mail notifications and set privacy settings.
  • FIG. 31 illustrates front end functionality that enables creation and editing of signature flows. This includes the ability to add multiple flows to documents, tests, issues, etc., enforce flows as prerequisites or run in parallel, managing peer review, pre Approve, review, approve and post approve requirements, managing custom signature meanings, save flows as personal or global templates, add flow blocks by personnel, organization, department or title, and insert and manage alternate signers and notes to or from signers.
  • the functionality may also enable termination of flows when necessary, enforcement of signer order within a flow, or creation of a hybrid parallel flow and the ability to view pending signatures at a glance.
  • Disclosed embodiments facilitate management of equipment and instrument data and associated preventive/ predictive maintenance programs, calibration programs, and automated transfer of this information to a computerized maintenance management system such as Maximo, SAP etc., tracking personnel completion of training modules, personnel qualification requirements and linkages to process control strategy, quality system or other regulatory requirements.
  • a computerized maintenance management system such as Maximo, SAP etc.
  • FIG. 32 illustrates exemplary architecture included in the system that enable maintenance, calibration and spare parts planning.
  • Disclosed embodiments facilitate management of procedures and training, thereby linking specific procedure and training elements back to process control strategy, quality system or other regulatory requirements; tracking development status; facilitating development and review; storage of current and former versions.
  • FIG. 33 illustrates exemplary architecture included in the system that enable personnel training and qualification data.
  • Disclosed embodiments also enable continuous improvement for process improvement opportunities, for refinement of design space, for changes to control strategy and for adjustments to maintenance and calibration programs.
  • This continuous improvement is one aspect of change management under ICH Q10, which promulgates a systematic approach to proposing, evaluating, approving, implementing and reviewing changes.
  • Change management requires oversight and management of the entire portfolio of changes and the change process, including all the components of change control across the entire product lifecycle.
  • disclosed embodiments enable implementation of ICH Q10 throughout product lifecycle to facilitate innovation and continual improvement and strengthen the connection between manufacturing processes and pharmaceutical development. Accordingly, disclosed embodiments enable identification and implementation of potential and implementable product quality improvements, process improvements, variability reduction, innovations and pharmaceutical quality system enhancements, thereby increasing the ability to fulfil quality needs consistently through quality risk management and knowledge management.
  • disclosed embodiments may be provided to implement a repository of operational experience data from all sources, of all types, that can be viewed and analyzed for trends; for gaps in quality system, training, procedures etc. for process improvement opportunities, for refinement of design space, for changes to control strategy and for adjustments to maintenance and calibration programs.
  • the information integration and management system provided by the disclosed embodiments may be implemented using software and hardware solutions in various configurations.
  • the environment in which the functionality is provided is bounded only by the mechanism that enables one or more users to interact with the system (e.g., a front end implemented, for example, via one or more GUIs).
  • the software functionality described herein to facilitate and enable the information integration and management may be implemented one or more local or distributed servers coupled to one or more communication networks (which may be public and/or private networks).
  • the environment which an exemplary system in accordance with the disclosure operates may include a plurality of networks and network connections that couple the system to one or more third-party provided software applications that provide the various aspects illustrated in FIGS. 1, 3 and 5 for example.
  • disclosed embodiments may be implemented using one or more software applications running on one or more servers and interacting with one or more other computers (e.g., mobile, tablet or desktop).
  • Such computers and servers may be running various additional third party software applications and have access to one or more databases of stored information that is integrated and managed by the disclosed inventive concept.
  • the architecture of the disclosed inventive concept may be implemented using the MYSQL® Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) or any other database management system, whether it be proprietary or open-source. Further, disclosed embodiments may be implemented using a variety of Structured Query Language (SQL) that is a special-purpose programming language designed for managing data.
  • SQL Structured Query Language
  • the architecture disclosed herein may be implemented using amazon web services® or any other commercially available collection of remote computing services, or web services, that may be used to implement a cloud computing platform or distributed computer software service environment.
  • the disclosed embodiments may be implemented using actual physical server farms with proprietary networks and data connections and corresponding security protocols in place to maintain data integrity and confidentiality.
  • Disclosed embodiments of the invention provide a mechanism to collect, organize, and relate all elements of a manufacturing process control strategy - the process requirements, the manufacturing risk assessment and associated risk control requirements, and the process variability management requirements into a relational (e.g., cohesive and structured) database.
  • Disclosed embodiments of the invention provide a mechanism to relate the elements of the manufacturing process control strategy to specific design elements (aspects of physical and automation design).
  • Disclosed embodiments of the invention provide a mechanism to relate the elements of the manufacturing process control strategy to specific operating instructions (procedures), training elements, maintenance elements, calibration actions, or other aspects of a manufacturing quality system.
  • Disclosed embodiments of the invention provide a mechanism to structure and record the results of the qualification of the design as meeting all requirements and other elements of the manufacturing process control strategy.
  • Disclosed embodiments of the invention provide a mechanism to provide comprehensive test planning (verification) across typical phases of equipment and automation delivery (factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, commissioning, final acceptance testing), with relational data base to efficiently and completely ensure all critical aspects of the design will be verified.
  • Disclosed embodiments of the invention provide a mechanism to further develop the test plan to create test scripts (test protocols) for paperless review, approval, and field execution using tablet technology. These test scripts are linked via relational database back to the design qualification and ultimately the requirements.
  • Disclosed embodiments of the invention provide a mechanism to manage the development, review, and approval of related documents such as procedures, training materials, maintenance and calibration plans. Using relational data base, ensure the key elements are incorporated into these documents.
  • Disclosed embodiments of the invention provide a mechanism to capture manufacturing process operating data and enhance the overall knowledge of the process and how it impacts the product characteristics.
  • the relationships contained within the inventive concept enable easy identification of all affected aspects of the manufacturing operation - equipment design, automation, procedures, training, personnel qualification, maintenance, calibration.
  • Disclosed embodiments of the invention provide a mechanism to facilitate the development of personnel qualification requirements based on requisite knowledge of product, process, and procedures, and relate these requirements through database to the process control strategy. Disclosed embodiments of the invention provide a mechanism to track the fulfillment of these qualifications and associated training requirements.
  • Disclosed embodiments of the invention provide associated functionality that relates to the delivery of manufacturing capital projects, such as scope management, design element management, project changes, meeting records, decisions, and actions.
  • the disclosed embodiments may provide an information integration and management system and methodologies in which software stored in a memory and running on at least one processor (e.g., included in at least one server), may be used to control that at least one processor to collect, organize, and relate data for all elements of a manufacturing process control strategy including process requirements, manufacturing risk assessment and associated risk control requirements, and process variability management requirements into the one or more relational databases.
  • the relational database are digital databases whose organization is based on a relational model of data that organizes data into one or more tables (or "relations") of rows and columns.
  • RDBMS Relational Database Management Systems
  • disclosed embodiments are compatible with and may utilize SQL (Structured Query Language) as the language for querying and maintaining the database.
  • the at least one processor may be one of a plurality of processors coupled together to communicate with one another, e.g., at a server, server farm, or via a distributed network of processors located at multiple physical locations.
  • the at least one processor may be, for example, a central processing unit (CPU) or implemented as one of a plurality of processors implemented in a hardware device, e.g., a server.
  • the at least one processor may be electronic circuitry within a computing device that carries out instructions of computer software by performing basic arithmetic, logical, control and input/output (I/O) operations specified by the software.
  • Disclosed embodiments provide and utilize functionality and method operations, which in ordered combination provide improvements to the functioning of a computer or computer system by providing the ability to collect, organize, and relate data for all elements of a manufacturing process control strategy including process requirements, manufacturing risk assessment and associated risk control requirements, and process variability management requirements into the one or more relational databases, and formulate and store relationships between and/or among the data for elements of the manufacturing process control strategy to data for specific design elements in the one or more relational databases and provide access to the data within the one or more relational databases via the at least one user interface.
  • the disclosed embodiments provide solutions that are necessarily rooted in computer technology in order to overcome a problem specifically arising in the realm of computer networks, e.g., the inability to collect, organize, and relate data for all elements of a manufacturing process control strategy in an effective and implemental way so as to organize and relate process requirements, manufacturing risk assessment and associated risk control requirements, and process variability management requirements into the one or more relational databases. Accordingly, the disclosed embodiments solve this technical problem by formulating and storing relationships between and/or among the data for elements of the manufacturing process control strategy to data for specific design elements in the one or more relational databases and provide access to the data within the one or more relational databases via the at least one user interface.
  • disclosed embodiments may be configured to be specific to drug manufacturing operations, disclosed embodiments may be utilized to achieve a technically innovative effect for any manufacturing operation.
  • disclosed embodiments may be useful in any manufacturing sector with regulatory requirements including, for example, cosmetics, nutritional products/supplements, personal hygiene products, medical devices, drug for animals, food, etc.

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La présente invention concerne une solution mise en oeuvre par logiciel et par matériel, qui permet aux entreprises de fabrication de gérer les connaissances, des gérer les informations, de se conformer aux réglementations, et de mettre en oeuvre une fabrication régulée d'une manière plus efficace et techniquement innovante.
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